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Each May, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation celebrates #FairwayJOY Week — a time when employees focus on spreading joy to their communities. Created in 2016, #FairwayJOY Week is an opportunity for all Fairway employees to share the happiness that fills their hearts year-round. As part of #FairwayJOY Week, Fairway employees use social media to disseminate acts of kindness, words of empowerment, a spirit of volunteerism and more.
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- APPRECIATE JOY – Send words of encouragement by putting pen to paper. Simply write, stamp and send!
- SEEK JOY – Follow #FairwayJOY on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Read about Fairway and acts of JOY.
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Gabor Garai is a partner and business lawyer at Foley & Lardner LLP. He is chair of the firm's Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice and co-chair of the Life Sciences Team.
Mr. Garai counsels emerging life science companies, including biotech, medical device, pharmaceutical and medical service businesses. Mr. Garai's private equity and venture capital practice encompasses all legal and business aspects of structuring, financing and managing various types of investment funds; negotiating mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies; structuring investments in emerging companies; and participating in strategic decisions of funds and fund-owned companies.
Mr. Garai addresses the strategic issues facing his clients through a combination of practical, business-oriented solutions and highly sophisticated financing techniques. He builds coherent, interdisciplinary teams to apply Foley's nationwide "best-of-breed" talents to his clients' diverse needs.
Mr. Garai lectures and writes frequently to business-people and professionals on venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Garai was selected to sit on the Law360 Private Equity Editorial Advisory Board. He recently co-edited "Buying and Selling a Privately Owned Business in Massachusetts" and "Middle Market Mergers and Acquisitions," both published by MCLE.
Mr. Garai graduated with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976, and earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1973.
Recognition and Awards
Mr. Garai has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system. In 2010 and 2012 - 2016, The Legal 500 recognized him for mergers & acquisitions and again for his work in health care – life sciences in 2013 - 2016. He was selected for inclusion in the 2004 - 2016 Massachusetts Super Lawyers® lists and has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© since 2007 in the fields of mergers and acquisitions and corporate law.
Mr. Garai is the Hungarian Consul General for New England and founder of the Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce of New England. He received the Hungarian Civilian Cross, the highest recognition to non-residents awarded by the Hungarian president. During his work as Honorary Consul, Mr. Garai was awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit in 2005 and an award pro auxilio cirium Hungarum in 2007 to recognize his efforts for the protection of Hungarian citizens. In 2013, he was selected as honorary commercial attaché for Hungary. In 2014, Mr. Garai was awarded the AmCham Hungary's Dr. Iván Völgyes Award, which recognizes individuals for encouraging and facilitating Hungarian-American business partnerships and cultural and academic alliances.
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Kevin Price is one emergency away from not being able to cover his basic needs, but he doesn't fit the stereotype of someone living on the financial edge.
Price lives in a three-bedroom house with his wife and two children in a suburb of Wilmington, Del. The family owns two cars, the kids participate in high school sports, and they all attend church services regularly. Price works full-time, as does his wife, and thanks to her job, the family has access to health insurance. But after covering rent, the cost of insurance for Price, his wife and their two children and other basic expenses, the couple had just $223 left in the bank in January.
Of his precarious financial situation, Price, 44, said, "It's like Muzak in the back of your head. It's a constant little annoyance."
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In honour of International Women's Day, Perimeter would like to salute the work of the great female physicists of the past century who shaped the field of physics as we know it. There is, of course, Marie Curie, the first person to make a systematic study of radioactivity – a word she coined – and the only person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields. But there are so many more:
- Emmy Noether, the mathematical genius who uncovered the deep connections between symmetry and conservation laws
- Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission
- Maria Goeppert Mayer, the nuclear physicist who developed the electron shell model of the atom, work for which she won a Nobel Prize
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- Helen R. Quinn, who did groundbreaking work on the grand unified theory
- Chien-Shiung Wu, a particle physicist who was one of the first to measure parity violation
This list could go on: There are too many to name.
As we enter the 21st century, we are aware that women in physics still face many barriers. We salute the women who are working to overcome them – including those who are on our faculty, or are among Perimeter's Distinguished Research Chairs: Dorit Aharonov, Bianca Dittrich, Renate Loll, Fotini Markopoulou, Eva Silverstein, Natalia Toro – and we commit to doing our part to break these barriers down.


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The temperature only reached a high of 45 degrees on Wednesday, November 4, but many Geneva College students spent the day walking barefoot all over campus. As part of an event called "I Dare You to Walk a Day in Their Shoes," the students raised awareness, funds and footwear for people who can′t afford shoes of their own.
The event, hosted by the staff of McKee Hall, began at 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday with an outdoor candlelight service. McKee Residence Director Marti Aiken, along with RD Scott Hwang and sophomore Olivia Hemlock, led students in a time of worship. At 11:59 p.m., students kicked off their shoes and began the day with cold feet and hot apple cider.
"The event was much larger than we expected. There was so much involvement campus-wide," Aiken says. "It originally was going to just be for our dorm, but someone suggested opening it up to the rest of the Geneva community."
Halfway through the 24-hour event, faculty and staff honored students′ efforts in a special way by washing students′ feet as they went into the dining hall at lunchtime.
"We′re washing the students′ feet to show our support," said biology professor Marjie Tobias. "Christ′s example of being a servant was to wash his disciples′ feet, and we′re following him."
The event raised more than 400 pairs of shoes for people around the world. And in the process, it also made an impact on the lives of the students who participated.
"I′ve had the opportunity to speak to some people personally, and I can see their hearts changing and how excited they are to be doing something, not just talking about it," Aiken says.
"Because I now have experienced a little of what being barefoot is like," sophomore Janell Owens explains, "I am able to be more sympathetic to those people who don′t have shoes. I think even the students who weren′t able to participate are more aware of the situation and more likely to donate to the cause."
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Rapa Nui – Easter Island – is shrouded in mystery. How did its people get there? Where did they come from? How did they move those gigantic statues? Some of that enigma comes to life during January's fortnight-long Tapati, a festival that combines ancient customs, such as carving and canoeing, with modern sports, such as the triathlon and horse racing.
First, the islanders form two competing teams, representing the age-old clans, so if you want to participate, it's best to get to know one of the captains. The opening ceremony kicks off with Umu Tahu, a massive barbecue, followed by a parade of would-be carnival queens wearing traditional grass skirts.
Most of the sports events are for men only: one breathtaking highlight is the bareback horse race along Vaihu Beach. If you fancy your chances against the proud locals, be prepared to wear little more than a bandana, a skimpy sarong and copious body paint. Another event, staged in the majestic crater at Rano Raraku, has contestants – including the odd tourist – paddling across the lake in reed canoes, running round the muddy banks carrying two handfuls of bananas and finally swimming across, with huge crowds cheering them on.
Meanwhile, the womenfolk compete to weave the best basket, craft the most elegant shell necklace or produce the finest grass skirt; visitors are welcome to participate. Little girls and venerable matriarchs alike play leading roles in the after-dark singing and dancing contests. They croon and sway through the night until the judges declare the winning team, usually around daybreak.
But the true climax is Haka Pei, in which three-dozen foolhardy athletes slide down the steep slopes of Maunga Pu'i Hill – lying on banana trunks. Top speeds reach 80km/h, total chaos reigns and usually a limb or two is broken, but the crowds love it. Should they ask you to take part, learn two vital Rapa Nui words: "mauru uru", "no thanks".
Tapati begins every year at the end of January. Lan Chile (www.lan.com) makes the 5hr flight to Easter Island several times a week from Santiago.
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First, a quick reminder that this Thursday, June 25, is Global Beatles Day. The annual online event is hosted by Faith Cohen and she wants people to express their love and admiration all together now for the four lads from Liverpool. Without them, the following post would not have been possible.
Although Boston-based filmmaker Justin Fielding doesn't plan to release his documentary The Power Pop Movie until some time in 2016, those of us who have been following his posts on Facebook already know a few essential things about it. Fielding plans to explore how a genre that places a premium on irresistible melodies and draws its main influence from classic hits of the 1960s has never been embraced by a majority of rock music fans. He has a keen knowledge of power pop's history; the artists who helped create it and the ones who perform it now. And he's willing to travel back and forth across the country to meet with those people.
A photo on Fielding's Facebook page today shows him conducting an interview with respected rock critic Ken Sharp, who recently released Vol. No. 2 of his Play On! Power Pop Heroes trilogy in conjunction with Pop Geek Heaven. I've referred to Vol. No. 1 several times here on Broken Hearted Toy, and I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of Vol. No. 2 in the mail. Fielding has also interviewed International Pop Overthrow founder David Bash; journalists Ira Robbins, Cary Baker, Moira McCormick, and John Borack; and radio personalities Chris Carter and Michael McCartney.
As for the musicians who have participated in The Power Pop Movie, they include Todd Rundgren; Clem Burke from Blondie; Debbi and Vicki Petersson from The Bangles; Mitch Easter from Let's Active; John Wicks from The Records; Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger from Fountains Of Wayne; Lannie Flowers; Derrick Anderson; Jim Laspesa; Jody Stephens from Big Star; Ken Stringfellow from The Posies and Big Star; Dave Gregory from XTC; Ron Flynt from 20/20; Jeremy Morris; and several others. Chicago is well-represented, with Gary Klebe, Jeff Murphy, and John Murphy from Shoes; Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick; Brad Elvis from Screams, The Elvis Brothers, Big Hello, The Handcuffs, and The Romantics; Mimi Betinis from Pezband; Cliff Johnson from Pezband and Off Broadway; and Ted Ansani and Mike Zelenko from Material Issue.
Fielding has created a short video preview for The Power Pop Movie, and it's likely he'll be filming more teasers in the coming months. I proudly wore my The Power Pop Movie t-shirt to the Gold Coast Art Fair in Chicago this past Saturday. From now through July 1st, the full price of any of The Power Pop Movie t-shirts purchased from the official website will be donated to a fund established by The Wild Honey Foundation to help musician John Wicks in his recovery from pancreatic cancer.


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A producer of oil and natural gas with worldwide exploration activities sought a new, ambitious digital approach to operations, to overcome a number of business challenges:
Cost pressures stemming from oil price fluctuations.
A dependency on multiple systems and processes across operating locations.
Difficulty in running global operations at optimum efficiency due to each region's reliance on different standards and technologies.
The client ultimately selected Accenture because of its industry knowledge, global delivery skills, cloud capabilities, and the Accenture Upstream Direct solution —a powerful tool built on the SAP HANA platform that provides detailed insights enabling business leaders to make better decisions and streamline their back-office operations.
The client and Accenture collaborated to deploy Accenture Upstream Direct—a cloud-based ERP system and a certified SAP Rapid Deployment Solution—on the SAP HANA platform, integrating four Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms to the new ERP system:
Ariba for procurement
SuccessFactors for talent and HR
sparesFinder for procurement and maintenance material master data
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE for tax software
In addition to the use of the Accenture Upstream Direct template, the client and Accenture leveraged a number of key assets for success:
Accenture's High Velocity HR solution
Off-premise SAP Hosting (which utilized a third-party provider to host the infrastructure)
A series of cutting-edge user interface and reporting tools such as Fiori, Lumira, and HANA Live, to provide considerable time and cost advantages
To help the client achieve a smooth transition to the new system and support its ongoing success, Accenture invited a subset of the client's core business users into the project early on to involve them in key project activities and decisions to facilitate the client's ownership of the solution.
Accenture provided personnel with deep industry and delivery experience—as well as its delivery centers in India and the Philippines to manage an aggressive timeline, costs, project scope, and deviations from plan. The client and Accenture successfully managed inconsistent data during the deployment, and developed a "Data SWAT" process to confirm the testing and go-live phases of the project would occur on "cleansed" and complete data.
The client and Accenture successfully collaborated to accelerate the digital transformation of the client's operations by implementing Accenture Upstream Direct in just 25 weeks. The new cloud-based ERP solution:
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Is providing an IT platform that is more cost-effective, easier to manage, and scalable to help meet the needs of the growing business.
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Provides an integrated flow of data that makes the financial close process more accurate and efficient.
spanning the wellhead, supporting functions, regulatory reporting, and reports for executives—the client is now positioned to operate more efficiently. With Accenture's help, the company can shift staff to areas that will make a difference over time, and obtain significant value from a new, world-class digital platform.


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Scampi traditionally refers to large shrimp that have been covered in garlic oil or butter and broiled. Here the shrimp are sauteed in a small amount of olive oil and tossed together with shallots, lemon juice, and brandy or sherry.
8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1/4 cup chopped shallots or green onions
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons brandy or sherry, optional
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/4 teaspoon salt
Ground black pepper, to taste
4 tablespoons trans fat-free margarine
Fill a large pot 3/4 full with water and bring to a boil. Add the pasta and cook according to package directions. Drain the pasta thoroughly.
While the pasta is cooking, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the shrimp and cook for about 3 minutes. Turn the shrimp and cook until pink and opaque, about 2 minutes longer. Transfer to a bowl and keep warm.
Add garlic and shallots to the saucepan and cook until fragrant, about 10 seconds. Add lemon juice, brandy or sherry if desired, parsley, salt, and pepper. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add margarine and cooked shrimp. Toss until shrimp are coated with sauce.
Divide pasta among warmed individual bowls. Top each serving with shrimp and sauce. Serve immediately.
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The scientific study of ancient disease, which has historical and medical implications for human, animal, and plant evolution, began in the late nineteenth century. The discipline, known as paleopathology, is today closely allied with archaeology and physical anthropology. Together, those two disciplines provide paleopathologists with the material for their research. Paleopathology's interdisciplinary nature and broad scope place most modern research in universities and medical schools.
According to Calvin Wells, a leader of the field in Europe, one of the main principles of paleopathology is the premise that humans and animals do not exist in isolation from their surroundings: the pattern of disease or injury that affects them is an integral part of that environment. Disease is the manifestation of the stress and strain to which they are exposed. Disease is reflected in their genetic inheritance, the climate in which they lived, the soil that gave them sustenance, and the other animals and plants with which they shared their world. It is influenced by their daily occupations, dietary habits, choice of dwellings, social structure, and even their folklore and mythology (Zias, 1989).
In the Near East, from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s, descriptive studies of Egyptian mummies were the prime concern of paleopathologists. Although much of the research appearing in journals is still descriptive, several scholarly attempts (e.g., Cockburn, 1963; Manchester, 1983) to provide a well-formulated theoretical/historical background for the discipline are providing direction for future research. Research today is rapidly moving in the direction of biomolecular studies of ancient disease including the extraction of DNA and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
The well-established literary tradition in the Near East provides a wealth of information on disease and medical practices spanning five thousand years. While early Assyrian and Egyptian texts deal specifically with the problem of disease and medical practices, perhaps the greatest body of knowledge comes from the Hebrew scriptural writings. Although not intended as medical texts, they are a source of medical practices and folk beliefs.
The scientific value of paleopathology lies in its diachronic approach to illness, which enables researchers to perceive chronic diseases, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, over a long period of time. The paleopathologist can thus determine whether a disease has evolved or changed its pattern. Certain diseases, such as arteriosclerosis, once regarded as the result of diet and modern living conditions, have been found in autopsies performed on Egyptian mummies (Sandison, 1980) calling into question many modern concepts about the etiology of heart disease.
The skeletal remains of all people in all periods are a very valuable scientific-medical resource for tracing the biological history of the human race. This material needs to be studied to understand better our ancestors, our health, and our world.
[See also Paleobotany; Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction; Paleozoology; and Skeletal Analysis.]
- Cockburn, Aidan. The Evolution and Eradication of Infectious Diseases. Baltimore, 1963. Authoritative and comprehensive work presenting diseases in theoretical/historical perspective. The author (d. 1981) founded the U.S. Paleopathology Association In 1973, the largest professional association in the field.
- Jones, Richard. "Paleopathology." In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5, pp. 60–69. New York, 1992.
- Manchester, Keith. The Archaeology of Disease. Bradford, 1983. Excellent survey of the discipline, with a strong emphasis on the Old World, particularly Europe.
- Ortner, Donald J., and Walter Putschar. Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. 2d ed. Washington, D.C., 1985. The most authoritative and scholarly text on the subject; valuable for its comprehensive coverage of disease worldwide.
- Preuss, Julius. Biblical and Talmudic Medicine (1911). Translated by Fred Rosner. New York, 1978. Standard reference for diseases mentioned in Jewish scriptural sources. Rosner's English translation corrects certain errors in, but remains faithful to, the original German text.
- Rafi, A., et al. "DNA of Mycobacterium leprae Detected by PCR in Ancient Bone" International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 4 (1994): 287–290. An attempt to utilize modern biomolecular techniques in diagnosing ancient disease on a genetic level.
- Sandison, A. T. "Diseases in Ancient Egypt." In Mummies, Disease, and Ancient Cultures, edited by Aidan Cockburn and Eve Cockburn, pp. 29–44. Cambridge, 1980.
- Wells, Calvin. Bones, Bodies, and Disease: Evidence of Disease and Abnormality in Early Man. New York, 1964.
- Wood, James, et al. "The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples." Current Anthropology 33.4 (1992): 343–370. Critical review of the discipline as it relates to prehistoric populations.
- Zias, Joseph. "Lust and Leprosy: Confusion or Correlation?" Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 275 (1989): 27–31. This article reflects on how theological and folkloristic concepts are influenced by disease.
- Zias, Joseph. "Death and Disease in Ancient Israel." Biblical Archaeologist 54.3 (1991): 146–159. The most comprehensive treatment to date on the subject as it pertains to the ancient Holy Land.
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"At this point it appears to be a recovery effort, and where that would be, is pretty much a needle in a haystack," said Marti Heath, a charter captain who operates out of John's Pass near St. Petersburg. "So what we're trying to do is have the people out there so at least there can be some closure" for the families.
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14 September 2011 – The Palestinian Authority (PA) has accomplished the tasks it set out to achieve two years ago to prepare its institutions for the responsibilities of statehood, but there remains a widening gap between that progress and the stagnant political process, according to a United Nations report.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 no.7 Cape Town Jul. 2010
Testicular cancer: management challenges in an African developing country
F O UgwumbaI; A E AghajiII
IMB BS, FWACS, FICS. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
IIMB BCh, FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Glasg), FWACS, FICS. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Advances in oncology have greatly improved the prognosis of testicular cancer. In developing countries, however, the outcome is still poor.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-four patients managed for testicular cancer at two centres (University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria, and JAMA Urological Clinic, Enugu) between April 1984 and March 2003 were prospectively studied. Histopathological data were obtained in all cases.
RESULTS: Peak age incidence was 20 - 29 years. Testicular swelling was the principal complaint in 23 patients. The mean interval between onset of symptoms and presentation was 5.3 months. Two patients (8.3%) presented with stage 1 disease, 7 (29.2%) with stage 2, 7 (29.2%) with stage 3, and 8 (33.3%) with stage 4. Seventy-five per cent of tumours were right-sided, and 25% were left-sided. Treatment consisted of radical orchidectomy in all patients and cisplatin-based chemotherapy and radiotherapy in some patients. One patient with a tumour in an intra-abdominal testis underwent laparotomy. The most common histological types were seminoma and embryonal carcinoma. A fifth of the patients died, while half were lost to follow-up. The mean follow-up period was 9 months.
CONCLUSION: Morbidity and mortality of testicular cancer is high in developing countries. Late presentation, poverty, paucity of resources and the high cost of newer imaging modalities and treatment are major challenges to management. Better health funding and education regarding testicular self-examination is essential.
Testicular cancer accounted for 1.1% of all cancers in males in the year 2000.1 The incidence was reported to be lower in non-whites than whites,2 while a study on a black population showed that, while there was a low incidence of germ cell tumours, non-germ cell tumours had a similar incidence to that in the white series.3 Testicular tumours arise from germ cells in 94 - 97% of cases. The tumours are classified into seminoma (classic, anaplastic and spermatocytic variants) and non-seminomatous germ cell tumours (embryonal carcinoma, teratocarcinoma, teratoma, choriocarcinoma, and yolk sac tumours). Non-germ cell tumours include gonadal stromal tumours and miscellaneous neoplasms.
The treatment of germ cell tumours has greatly evolved from extirpative surgery only, to cisplatin-based chemotherapy, radiotherapy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. These methods have now made the condition being potentially curable, with documentation of excellent survival figures in the developed world.4 However, in the developing world, treatment outcome is still poor.5,6 Reasons for this trend include lack of well-established first-line medical treatment that leads to late diagnosis and referral, and unavailability of treatment, poverty and reluctance to accept chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
We examined the presentation, outcome and challenges in the management of testicular cancer in Enugu, Nigeria.
Patients and methods
The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and JAMA Urological Clinic are major referral centres for patients with urological ailments, including tumours, in south-eastern Nigeria, which has a population of over 20 million people. Patients are referred from peripheral hospitals, and the general outpatient department and other clinical departments of the teaching hospital. Diagnosis of testicular tumours was made on clinical grounds (palpable testicular mass with or without abdominal mass), scrotal-abdominal ultrasonography, chest radiograph, intravenous urography and estimation of tumour markers (beta-human chorionic gonadotrophin (bHCG) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)). Computed tomography (CT) scanning was not done because it was not available during the study period. Clinical staging was according to the Royal Marsden staging system (Table I). All diagnoses were confirmed by histopathological analysis of the operative specimens. Between April 1984 and March 2003 (19 years), 24 patients were managed in the two centres. Research ethics committee approval was obtained from both institutions for our study. Data for age at presentation, clinical features, investigation and stage of disease were collected. Also assessed were histological type, treatment given, duration of follow-up, special management problems, and outcome.
Data analysis was done by means of SPSS software, version 15 (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA).
Twenty-four patients were seen in the study period; their ages ranged from 16 to 43 years (mean 28.1 years); 20 (83.3%) were <40 years old, while 4 (16.7%) were >40 years old (Fig. 1).
Clinical presentation
Twenty-three (96%) patients presented with intra-scrotal testicular masses; one presented with an undescended intra-abdominal testes mass. Most (75%) tumours were right-sided while 25% were left-sided (Fig. 2). The mean duration of symptoms before presentation was 5.3 months (range 1 - 12 months). Presentations other than testicular mass were abdominal mass (9 - 38%), primary infertility (3 - 13%), gynaecomastia (6 - 25%) and undescended testes in 1 (4%) patient.
Following a full history and physical examination, scrotal-abdominal ultrasonography, chest radiograph and intravenous urography were done. CT scanning was not available, which challenged our management as it limited the staging of retroperitoneal nodes. AFP was elevated in 3 patients, both AFP and BHCG were elevated in 16 patients, and both AFP and BHCG were negative in 5 patients. Most patients presented at stages 2, 3 and 4 (29%, 29% and 33% respectively (Table II). In the absence of CT imaging, we relied on abdominal ultrasonography to detect gross retroperitoneal lymph node involvement. As this is a poor substitute, many of our patients might have been understaged, which was an obvious limitation as staging accuracy of abdominal disease was suboptimal.
Cervical non-supraclavicular lymph node involvement was seen in 3 patients, and supraclavicular lymph nodes in 4; pulmonary metastases occurred in 7, and liver metastases in 1 patient. Definitive diagnosis was based on histopathological analysis of the operative specimen in all cases. The histological types seen were seminoma (8), embryonal carcinoma (8), teratoma (5) and mixed (3) (Fig. 3).
Radical orchidectomy and cisplatin-based chemotherapy was the most common treatment combination, and was done in 11 (46%) patients; radical orchidectomy only and radical orchidectomy with radiotherapy in 6 (25%) patients each; and laparotomy, excision of intra-abdominal testicular tumour and chemotherapy was done in 1 (4%) patient. Surgical complications included surgical site infection in 4 patients and adhesive small-bowel obstruction in the patient with intra-abdominal testes.
Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) was not done on any of our patients as they refused consent after being informed of the ejaculatory difficulty that might follow. The reason behind these refusals was fear of infertility, which has strong cultural and social consequences in Africa.
Cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy using the BEP regimen (bleomycin, etoposide, cisplatin) was commenced 7 - 14 days postoperatively in 10 patients, while 2 patients with scrotal skin involvement received neo-adjuvant BEP to achieve tumour mobility and resectability.
The detailed dosage regimen used was: bleomycin 15 mg as a 24-hour infusion on days 2 and 3; etoposide 100 mg/m2 intravenously on days 1 - 5; and cisplatin 120 mg/m2 as a 2-hour infusion with diuresis and hydration on day 4. Four cycles were given at 3-weekly intervals. These intervals were sometimes extended to allow correction of anaemia, leucopenia and thrombocytopenia. Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting were managed by methylprednisolone, metoclopramide and, in the later years of the study (from 1999 to 2003 specifically), 5-HT3 antagonists. Four cycles were chosen as the recommended minimum for all patients to compensate for probable under-staging of our patients, owing to the unavailability of CT scanning.
In all, 12 patients received chemotherapy for a minimum of 3 courses, though these were often irregular as the patients had to buy the drugs, which they usually could ill afford, and no health insurance scheme existed at the time. Chemotherapy complications frequently encountered were stomatitis and haematological. We noted a single case of bleomycin-induced pneumonitis which resolved with conservative management. When a national health insurance scheme started, its coverage was only for contributors' primary health problems, excluding cancer care.
The 6 patients who received radiotherapy were referred to centres in other cities where the facility was available, each at least 600 km away. Another 4 patients failed to receive the recommended radiotherapy because of the prohibitive distance to the radiotherapy centres and the costs involved.
Five patients died within 19 months of presentation and initial treatment response; all had stage 3 disease. Three failed to receive the recommended radiotherapy and re-presented in a moribund condition, while 2 had received 1 cycle of BEP only. The causes of death were superior vena cava obstruction (1), massive bilateral pleural effusion (2) and pulmonary embolism (2).
We defined loss to follow-up as any patient not seen for up to 3 years after presentation and treatment. Twelve patients were lost to follow-up, some as early as 3 months after our primary intervention. Seven patients were alive and well at 3 years and beyond. The mean duration of follow-up was 9 months. Only 3 patients were available for follow-up and well after 5 years.
The peak age incidence of 20 - 29 (mean 28.1) years is consistent with other findings.7-10 However, the distribution of the stages in our series differed markedly from that in the developed world. In developed countries, stage 1 disease is the most common and also shows a consistent rise,7,11,12 whereas in our study stages 3 and 4 were the most common. The mean interval between onset of symptoms and presentation to a health care facility was unduly long (5.2 months, range 1 - 12 months). Late presentation is thought to be due to ignorance, fear of consequences,13 long distances to hospitals, and strong beliefs in traditional medicine and religious charlatans.14 The most common presenting symptom was testicular swelling, which is in agreement with another African study.10
An undescended testis and abdominal mass was found in one (4%) patient, which is similar to a 35-year review at Ibadan, Nigeria, where 4% of tumours arose from undescended testes.15 Our histological distributions of tumours are in agreement with studies from Lagos,9 where the most common tumours were embryonal carcinoma and seminoma, and from Nairobi, Kenya,10 where the most common type was seminoma. These findings suggest a similarity in histological patterns between Nigeria (West Africa) and Kenya (East Africa), but the small number of cases does not allow firm conclusions.
Given the small number of testicular cancer, inter-institutional collaborative studies among countries will help to gain data for larger numbers of patients and so determine racial, inter-regional and temporal trends. However, this has not been the case in Nigeria; to our knowledge, only single-centre studies have been published.
The treatment of testicular cancer consists of radical orchidectomy, cisplatin-based chemotherapy radiotherapy, and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND). RPLND was not performed on any of our patients owing to their refusal of consent after information regarding ejaculatory difficulty was given. This is a setback to effective treatment, which can be remedied by better patient education. Consent for radical orchidectomy was often given reluctantly as patients perceived the procedure as emasculating, and a threat to manhood, sexuality and fertility.
In our series, radical orchidectomy was performed on all patients. Laparotomy (for excision of a malignant intra-abdominal testis) was done on 1 patient. Surgical complications were limited to surgical site infection and an adhesive small-bowel obstruction that resolved with conservative management in the patient who underwent laparotomy.
Twelve patients received chemotherapy, although this was irregular in most instances because of difficulties in sourcing the drugs, especially cisplatin, from abroad. Other difficulties included the high cost of the drugs, which patients had to bear as there was no health insurance scheme in the country at the time. When a health insurance scheme was initiated, it had a contributory basis, i.e. only salary earners in the public and private sector (comprising less than 10% of the population) were entitled to care, which does not include treatment of malignancies. This invariably means that patients have to fund treatment from meagre personal savings and the goodwill of relatives and friends. Another problem is the formal admission each time a patient requires chemotherapy owing to the lack of a dedicated chemotherapy unit that could offer chemotherapy on a day-care basis and provide home follow-up care.
Our mean duration of follow-up was 9 months. After 24 months, 12 (50%) of our patients were lost to follow-up. A high incidence of loss to follow-up is common in the developing world.16 Poverty, ignorance and, possibly, poor doctor-patient communication may be factors. Radiotherapy facilities were not available in our centre (or anywhere in south-eastern Nigeria) during the study period, and patients had to travel to other centres, each at least 600 km from our centre. This usually separated patients from their support base of family and friends and affected their psyche negatively, and often led to delays in commencing radiotherapy. The long distances also resulted in non-completion of radiotherapy in many cases, as patients often had to return home to acquire more funds from relatives and friends.
Testicular cancer has excellent survival figures in the developed world, approaching 97% for low-stage disease.17 In our series, however, the outcome was poor, with 5 patients dead within 19 months of presentation and 12 (half) of our patients lost to follow-up within 24 months. Only 3 patients were followed up for 5 years. Possible reasons for this poor outcome and, more importantly, the dismal follow-up periods, include late presentation, ignorance, and inadequate patient education regarding the value of follow-up in malignancy even when symptoms are absent. Paucity of resources for tracing patients and home visits is common in our public hospitals.
The management of testicular cancer in our environment includes challenges such as late presentation, high-stage disease at presentation, absence of radiotherapy facilities in south-eastern Nigeria, high cost of drugs, and virtually zero patient awareness of testicular self-examination. A holistic approach is advocated, including a significant increase in health care funding, expansion of the health insurance scheme to cover cancer treatment, improved patient education, and an emphasis on home visits to follow up such patients. The inclusion of teaching testicular self-examination into the primary and secondary school curriculum is also proposed as a preventive strategy.
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Accepted 25 January 2010.
Corresponding author: F Ugwumba (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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What Cuomo can do to Con Ed and LIPA for 'lack of performance'
It's become something of a ritual for Governor Andrew Cuomo to blast Con Edison and the Long Island Power Authority for their performance following Hurricane Sandy.
On November 1, the governor sent a scathing letter to the chief executives of seven utilities, including Kevin Burke, the C.E.O. of Con Edison, and Michael Hervey, the C.O.O. of LIPA, whose board members are appointed by the state (including one by Governor Cuomo).
In the letter, Cuomo accused the utilities of failing to prepare for the storm, and of failing to "keep the trust that New Yorkers have placed in you by granting you the privilege to conduct utility business in New York State."
"In the context of the ongoing emergency, such a failure constitutes a breach of the public trust," he wrote. "Under such circumstances, I would direct the Public Service Commission to commence a proceeding to revoke your Certificates."
Earlier this week, he took up the cudgel again, and said the utilities "will be held accountable for their lack of performance."
As of Monday, 1.35 million households still had no power in the regions hit by Hurricane Sandy.
Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that in New York City, 91,000 homes still have no power.
Assuming this is more than mere bluster, here's what Cuomo's accountability might look like:
The Public Service Law gives the state's Public Service Commission the right to investigate and regulate the utilities, while the State Administrative Procedures Act allows the state to revoke a utility's operating certificate.
According to the governor's office, first, Cuomo could launch an investigative process, which would be overseen by an administrative law judge.
During that process, the utilities would present their cases, as would the governor and the stakeholders.
The investigation would seek to answer a couple of key questions: Were the utilities adequately prepared for the storm? And did they take responsibility for the repair work following the storm, or did they pass the expense and responsibility on to their customers instead?
The judge would then present a recommendation to the Public Service Commission.
Five people sit on its board, each appointed by a governor to six-year terms. Only one was appointed by Cuomo.
It is the PSC that would make the ultimate determination.
The PSC could decide to fine the utilities, or—and this would be drastic—decertify them. Which is exactly what the governor is threatening to do.
(In order for this process to apply to LIPA, the governor would have to pass legislation amending the state statutes governing LIPA and the PSC, according to Jackson Morris, director of strategic engagement at the Pace Energy and Climate Center.)
There does appear to be some historical precedent for this.
In the 1980s, when Cuomo's father Mario was governor, the state created the Long Island Power Authority.
The idea was to have LIPA take over the assets of the Long Island Lighting Company and decommission its Shoreham nuclear power plant, according to The Encyclopedia of New York State.
LILCO had overseen the plant's construction, and Long Islanders blamed the related (and enormous) cost overruns with creating the highest utility rates in the nation.
LIPA ultimately succeeded in taking over LILCO's electric transmisson system in the late 1990s.
(The company now known as KeySpan Long Island acquired its power plants and natural gas system.)
LIPA, it should be noted, is run by the state, and its board members are appointed by the governor.
So if Cuomo did follow through on his threats, he'd do so by convincing one state-controlled agency, the PSC, to decertify another, and to create a framework for replacing it.
There's no way of knowing absolutely whether the replacement entity would constitute an improvement. The LILCO-LIPA precendent suggests that the answer is: Yes, at least for a while.


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This morning, many Massachusetts woodlots are being occupied by female impersonators, seductively clicking, clucking and purring. It's not because they have a secret feminine side they need to express. Their studied, vocal imitations are intended to attract eager-to-mate male wild turkeys now strutting ostentatiously.
The narcissistic gobblers expect females to succumb to their magnificently irresistible displays. Many toms will be lured, however, to investigate the presumed, strangely coy females that incomprehensively continue to chatter away in the distance instead of coming in with abandon.
Turkey season opened yesterday and will run through May 25. The first few days are often the most successful. Turkeys are initially less wary. However, they quickly learn to avoid poorly imitated calls.
Turkey hunters need a regular hunting license and an additional turkey permit. An official green safety-reminder sticker must also be attached to their firearm, placed in such a position that it is visible to the hunter when sighting down the barrel. Any Division of Fish and Wildlife office can supply the free sticker.
Good turkey hunters are motionless, always wearing camouflage, generally practicing refined skills, calling behind a decoy. They could be vulnerable to incompetents who don't carefully observe their target.
Bad turkey hunters wander around, approaching other calling hunters, often ruining their hunts and putting everyone in jeopardy. Turkey hunting is seldom easy, and that's why it's so captivating. Turkey eyesight is as sharp as an eagle's, and many poor hunters have been betrayed by their easily perceived movements.
Bad turkey hunters desperately want to bring home a turkey, sometimes at any cost. Unethical hunters will even illegally and unsportingly shoot a bird out of its roost tree, just before it makes its dawn descent. They don't have a clue about the true essence of the sport.
The classic way to hunt a turkey is to scout a tom ahead of time, learning where it roosts. That can be accomplished the evening before by driving around and getting it to vocalize from its tree by making the call of a barred owl, a natural enemy. I once accidentally hit the horn of my car and had a gobbler give away its roosting location.
Once the hunter knows where a bird is roosting, he can get into the forest in total darkness the following morning. At legal shooting time — a half hour before sunrise, just when he leaves his roost — the exciting challenge to fool and call him in begins. That's what makes turkey hunting special.
Spring hunting ends each day at noon. That policy gives birds a chance to mate without disturbance.
The annual bag limit is two turkeys, but only one may be harvested on a given day. Both turkeys may be harvested during the spring season, but must be bearded. We want to protect the females now, as they're laying the proverbial golden egg. Since one male can mate with several females, we don't need a lot of males to maintain a healthy population.
Hunting is permitted only with shotguns no larger than 10 gauge or .775 caliber smoothbore muzzle-loading shotguns using No. 4 to No. 7 size shot, or with archery equipment.
Use of electronic calls, dogs, bait and driving turkeys is prohibited. Successful hunters must fill out the tag attached to their permit and immediately, prior to moving, attach it to the turkey, which must be checked or reported within 48 hours, using the online MassFishHunt system.
After answering the online game checking questions, you will receive an online confirmation number. This number must be written on the tag and remain attached to the animal until the game is skinned, butchered or otherwise prepared for food or mounting.
A big tom provides the makings for a gourmet dinner many find preferable to its domestic cousin. A secret to cooking irresistible wild turkey is using a great marinade.
One consists of a bottle of the best Italian salad dressing and an equal amount of white wine. Refrigerate the breast fillets overnight in the marinade. The following day, after pouring off the marinade, bake the breasts at 350 degrees for about an hour and fifteen minutes, basting them with 1/2 cup of olive oil and 1/2 cup of melted butter.
A second winning marinade is made of 1/2 cup of olive oil with five cloves of crushed garlic, a tablespoon of kosher salt, and a tablespoon of pepper. A touch of cayenne is optional. After refrigerating the breasts overnight, set them out for at least an hour at room temperature before grilling them about 3 minutes on each side. You'll wish the season's limit was more than just two birds.
Good calling, good shooting, and good cooking!
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Coal stocks ride China's stimulus waveSeptember 10, 2012: 1:38 PM ET
Investors who have been burned by holding onto coal stocks this year may finally be feeling the right type of heat.
Coal stocks started heating up Friday, after China announced a $156 billion commitment for improving the country's roads, rails and other infrastructure.
With China planning 55 new major infrastructure projects, investors are betting that those projects will rev up demand for coal, which China uses to make steel for its bridges. Coal
China's news gave at least one StockTwits trader a reason to pat himself on the back.
upsidetrader: As I said a month ago, China would ease regardless, they cant help themselves, let the bridges to nowhere begin, $XLB, $SLX, $KOL
CDMCapital: $ANR very healthy volume the past few days, this might be "the" breakout everyone has been calling for since summer
mjapple: $WLT Coal words of wisdom from Peter Epstein: "The stocks rallied more on optimism about China and Europe then underlying coal fundamentals."
That's a good point. Fundamentally, nothing has really changed.
China has pledged to spend billions on infrastructure, but there are still some pretty big inventories out there. And China's growth forecasts have been shrinking. So this little rally could prove to be just that...a little rally.
Two major coal producers, Walter Energy (WLT) and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) are up 6% and 18% respectively over the past five days, but are still down 43% and 62% this year.
AoTrader: $ANR shorts continue to get rolled. Don't be stubborn here. Price is never wrong.
Price can be wrong but for now at least, things are getting dicey for investors betting on a fall in prices by taking short positions.
CDMCapital $ANR shorts worried on Alpha, buying continues in the face of poor markets. Still ~ 30+ million shares short
Coal ETFs including Market Vectors ETF (KOL) have also been riding the wave.
paulwoll: Personally think shorts stuck in $KOL plays and think continuation likely tomorrow so could unwind more Mon/Tues. $ANR $WLT etc.


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Success in MLS Cup means waiting patiently when it comes to draft picks. So for reigning MLS Cup champions Colorado, having the 16th overall pick in Wednesday's first stage of the Re-Entry draft is perfect.
As a matter of fact, head coach Gary Smith says that even if the Rapids had a much earlier pick, it was unlikely they would play a very active part in it. Speaking to MLSsoccer.com from England, where he's on a two-week visit to his home country, Smith said that while there are some attractive names on the Re-Entry list, such players are unlikely to find their way to Colorado.
"We have a group of players that have done well and, to keep that group together, [a player chosen in the draft] will be taking up a lot of the salary cap and there just isn't that much wiggle room," Smith said. "I do think there are some very decent names in that draft, but looking at what our team needs, I don't see it in some of the individuals that are on offer."
[inline_node:312294]Smith picked out two names in particular from the Re-Entry Draft: Jimmy Conrad and Frankie Hejduk. The Rapids coach believes the veteran Hejduk still has "plenty of mileage" left in him and that Conrad would be an obvious replacement for the recently departed Julien Baudet.
Neither player, however, would be affordable.
"We lost a man and a leader in Julien, and Jimmy would fit in very nicely, but he's not going to come and play for us for [a smaller salary]," he said. "There are plenty of other clubs who are in a better position to start offering a better deal."
Smith has said recently that he is looking for another central defender to back-up first choice Marvell Wynne and Drew Moor, as well as Scott Palguta.
While the Rapids boss did say any additions to the club would likely come from January's SuperDraft or from outside MLS (Smith is to have meetings this week with agents of players currently in Europe), he didn't rule out making a move on Wednesday.
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That Stephen Colbert sure has a knack for finding promising artists. On June 12, he'll take a break from hard politics to dedicate an hour-long special to an artist he believes will make it big: Paul McCartney.
"I think this McCartney kid's got something special and I'm gonna put him on the map!" says Colbert.
McCartney, who is currently on his "Out There" tour (sold-out, sorry), will sit down with the comedian for an interview as well as perform a few songs from the tour and from the 2013 reissue of "Wings Over America." He also will test out a new track that will only be available afterward at colbertnation.com.
This is the second one-act show that Colbert has picked up; the first one being Radiohead.
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Homemade Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Truffles
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 10-12 graham cracker sheets (I just used one whole "sleeve" of graham crackers and didn't actually count how many were in there . . . so it is just a guess that there are 10-12 whole crackers)
- dipping chocolate, melted
- Put graham crackers in a food processor or plastic Ziploc bag and beat until they are finely crushed. Mix butter, powdered sugar, peanut butter, and graham crackers together in large bowl. Roll into 1" balls. Place rolled balls on large cookie sheet (I lined my cookie sheet with parchment paper) and stick in the freezer for about 20 minutes. In the meantime, melt dipping chocolate. Once the peanut butter balls have set up, dip in chocolate and place back on cookie sheet. Let set up before serving/sharing with neighbors (but you can pop a few in your mouth just to test them and make sure they are safe to eat- it's a chance that I am always willing to take).
- Makes 6-7 dozen truffles.
- You can also make these look like a Reese's peanut butter cup- purchase mini-cupcake holders or candy paper cups on a large tray. Pour a small spoonful of chocolate in the bottom of each cup, add a flattened peanut butter ball in the middle, then pour a little more chocolate on top to cover it up.
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My cute neighbor Summer made these for me a couple of months ago and I have been hooked ever since. I have a crazy addiction to all things chocolate and peanut butter and these little balls of goodness hit the spot! The recipe makes A TON, so you can share with your friends and neighbors or throw them in your freezer for when you need a little "pick-me-up". 🙂


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Three US teenagers ended up in the emergency department with altered mental states and seriously elevated heart rates after smoking synthetic marijuana, doctors say in a new report that adds to earlier evidence the popular drug can be dangerous.
One 16-year-old girl who was brought in by her boyfriend refused to move or speak and did not respond when doctors rubbed her chest hard or pinched her. Although she was lying down, her pulse was 105.
She only came back around after getting two kinds of medications -- an anti-anxiety drug and one that's used to treat abnormal movements -- and resting for several hours.
While her urine test was positive for THC, one of the active ingredients in natural marijuana, her boyfriend said they had also smoked K2, one of the many names for synthetic marijuana.
The drugs were recently banned in the US and the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed to classify them permanently as schedule 1 controlled substances -- a category that includes heroin and natural marijuana.
The synthetic versions are blends of herbs and spices laced with cannabis-like chemicals, and are sold under a variety of names, including Spice, K2 and Red X Dawn.
The synthetic drugs are believed to be much stronger than regular pot, however, and the products may include other ingredients, too.
"Because it's unregulated we don't know exactly what's in it," said Dr. Joanna Cohen, one of the authors of the new report, which was published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The two other cases involved both involved teenage boys.
One of them, an 18-year-old, was brought to the ER from a party, where he had gotten into an altercation. He was aggressive, agitated and sweating profusely and had a pulse of 131.
The other, a 16-year-old, seemed confused and agitated and had trouble speaking. Both teens calmed down after getting an anti-anxiety drug and were discharged from the hospital after a number of hours.
Both teens had a negative drug screen, but said they had been smoking synthetic pot, which isn't detectable on standard drug tests.
Cohen, an emergency physician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., said the three cases described in her report are the only ones she has witnessed personally.
But last November, a team of Texas doctors published a report on three 16-year-olds who had experienced heart attacks after smoking synthetic cannabis.
And according to Cohen and her colleagues, poison control centers across the country have received 4,500 calls involving the products since 2010.
"If people were getting the effects that they wanted they probably wouldn't be calling the poison control centers," she told Reuters Health. "Anytime your teenager is acting abnormally or having aggressive agitation you should certainly seek medical attention."


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This just happened to me, and I was wondering if it's happened to anyone else or whether it was just a weird glitch caused by my computer's cookies or something. I posted a thread in one forum only to have it show up in another. And yes, I know for certain it moved on its own, as I clicked to return to the forum it was in and got an entirely different forum than the one I was surfing. Hopefully it doesn't happen too often, as that could be a headache for moderating the site.
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Reviewed By Darryl H (COPAKE, NY) Reviewed for a 2001 Toyota Tundra —4/10/2015 2:27 AM
took me a hour to put it in and most of that was taking out the old intake. now im using half... that's right HALF the fuel I was using. I painted the heat shield to match the truck and it looks great. very good quality for the price. the other intakes were much more expensive but I think all your paying for is their name. overall... its AWESOME!!


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Our cattle are never fed commercially mixed feeds , growth hormones, feed additives, antibiotics. or anything other than grass, grass pellets, hay and a salt/mineral mix.
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|Dev: Yukes, Visual Concepts
|Pub: 2k Games
|Release: October 29, 2013
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Angelo M. D'Argenio
Last year, WWE 13 dazzled us with its commitment to wrestling history and narrative. Its Attitude Era story mode let us replay some of the biggest moments in WWE history, reliving them right down to the original audio lifted straight from each event. In fact, WWE 13 was so well received, Yukes and Visual Concepts simply decided to do the whole thing again in WWE 2K14. While Attitude Era's replacement, the 30 Years of WrestleMania mode, is still as fun as ever, the rest of the game has barely changed. Unfortunately, this has made more than a couple flaws come to light that we didn't see in WWE 13 because we were too busy staring into The Rock's perfect, chiseled abs.
Let's start with the good. The 30 Years of WrestleMania mode is essentially the Attitude Era mode from WWE 13, but it's greatly expanded. Here, you'll get to relive some of the greatest moments of WWE history by playing over 46 of the most memorable WrestleMania matches. You'll take control of classic wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan, Sargent Slaughter, Andre the Giant, The Macho Man Randy Savage, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, and more.
Once again, the dedication to wrestling history here is second to none. The announcers speak with the exact same audio clips that were recorded when the event first aired. Special events happen both in and out of the ring that perfectly recreate the way the match went down. Crowds and rings mimic the scenery of the time period, right down to cheesy 80's TV overlays. Even the camera swings to the exact angle the footage was originally captured in.
However, the narrative of the 30 Years of WrestleMania mode is far more staggered than Attitude Era's story. Because the mode covers so much of WWE history, you never really get to see grudges and rivalries play out. Instead of a single coherent story, 30 Years of WrestleMania is a lot more like a clip show, which is cool for anyone old enough to remember these classic matches, but a lot less engaging for anyone who lost touch with professional wrestling somewhere down the line.
The Undertaker is the headliner of the game this year, so there's also a new mode specifically dedicated to defending or ending The Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak. You'll probably spend a lot less time here than you will in 30 Years of WrestleMania, but it's still fun. When fighting against the Undertaker, you are essentially going up against an ultra-difficult boss, and when fighting as the Undertaker, you are basically going through a balls-to-the-wall endurance match. It's a cool little addition that isn't all that well fleshed out but doesn't really detract from the game.
The series' creation modes are back and are more flexible than ever. You can make just about any type of wrestler you want, tweaking multiple costume layers and fiddling around with body types till the cows come home. I can't tell you how many fat men in their underwear I made here. WWE Universe also comes back, if customizing rivalries and events is more your thing, and it too has expanded. So if you are all about the user-generated content, WWE 2K14 will still please you.
Finally, the game has gotten faster, and this is partially because of the new graphics system. It's hard to deny that WWE 2K14 looks far smoother than previous titles. Characters collide better and grab each other more realistically. Suplexes and power bombs are executed through the use of dynamic camera angles that make matches look like you were actually watching them on TV. Even the rings and crowds look better this time around.


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With 6 billion phones on the planet and 1 billion of them smart phones, mobile is growing faster than ever. Tablets are close behind with 30% of Americans owning tablets or eReaders that are internet enabled. But what are we are marketers and businesses doing about it?
According to today's presentation by MEC's Global Chief Strategy Officer, Melanie Varley, and their Head of Mobile and Emerging Platforms, North America, Andy Wasef, the only way to be creative is to be mobile. Now, more than ever, we need to think of mobile first instead of an add on further into the process of developing a campaign or experience.
This drive to consider mobile first has been a drum Wasef has been banging for a long time. Three years ago, according to an article in Ad Age yesterday, he urged executives, trade groups and publishers to "learn from the mistakes of how advertising appears and is measured online and not duplicate them on mobile phones." Obviously this has not happened as marketers and advertisers continue to badly replicate web based experiences onto our phones.
With this in mind, Varley and Wasef gave the audience four key points to consider when developing future campaigns and it's focus is mobile.
1) Understand the role mobile plays for your business
Before you start any campaign, you need to understand how consumers use and engage with mobile. There are currently three basic ways:
- Kill time: This is the biggest area and is mainly gaming and social media
- Save time: A very powerful use for mobile, consumers use utility apps to make tasks easier and faster especially when on the go. Financial and retail are predictably common areas where apps hale consumers such as Turbotax which helps people complete their tax return in the US.
- In prime time: Duel screening
2) Use mobile to humanise your digital experience
With current smartphone functionality, we are developing new behaviors of interaction with devices and this is introducing new media opportunities. You now can Zoom, Swipe, Pinch and Tap.
This is making websites developed for the web, obsolete on mobile devices as we are unable to fully utilize the sites with our "fat fingers." The old eBay experience compared to the new, is one site that made a leap forward in functionality as it decluttered the environment for mobile use. This better experience delivers twice the sales and eBay are estimating that it will make 15% of its sales from mobile.
There also continues to be an improvement of mobile rich media and intuitive service design. The Samsung Galaxy, for instance, adjusts your snooze button based on your sleeping patterns, mines calendar data and alerts you, based on traffic, when you should leave to go to a meeting and will alert you with news of sports teams you follow. Apple's Siri will adapt based on every question you ask it and will continue to learn.
3) Think about mobile as your first screen
When developing strategy, think mobile first and change how you think about about the whole creative process. Smart retailers are developing mobile strategies. Google analytics created this experience to humanize the online shopping experience to show why it fails.
As 50% of consumers use mobile in store to validate purchases and check prices, we can no longer ignore its power. Last holiday season Amazon took advantage of consumers price checking in store by giving them $5 discounts when they continued the sales process on their mobile instead of heading to the physical checkout.
4) Integrate consumer touch points through mobile
50% of mobile usage is in the home and we are one second away from information, purchase and friends. Though we are using mobile to keep in touch, voice is not in the top five uses of smartphones.
For instance, Shazam Now is one of the many ways dual screening is coming to age as demonstrated in this video:
We have connected TV, companion apps, TV platforms and set-top boxes. We're building our TV and tablet experiences to mirror that of the mobile. Even Microsoft are heading that way with their new IE 10 and Windows 8 release.
It's not just TV where we're integrating our experiences with mobile. We have print with SMS feedback components and outdoor advertising with QR codes and augmented reality. We are becoming increasingly mobile and are expecting more from advertisers, technology and the devices we use to interact with the world.
It's going to be the brands and marketers that realize this who are going to win the race to capture the consumer. With all that noise out there, it's those who filter it and streamline, who will succeed.


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Tyler Neylon is like any other lego junkie - he looks beyond the directions in a kit and uses the bricks in front of him to make his own designs.
In Neylon's case, he took a small 58-brick Creator set and created an impressive 50 designs. The creations range from animals like an elephant to machinery like a bulldozer. There's even an abstract Statue of Liberty that is unmistakeable once you see the outline.
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January 17, 2011
Making your house a home (Home resolutions, part II)
Posted in Living by Tara Sharp
Your home is a reflection of your tastes, your lifestyle and your ambition, and many of us are regularly transforming our homes one way or another to fit our adjusting needs.
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January 14, 2011
Practical resolutions: preparing for the best in 2011 (Part I)
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Tara Sharp
The new year offers the chance of renewed energy to accomplish the goals from past years and start fresh projects. This is the first post in a four-blog series about setting home resolutions, come back to see more information on making your existing home more personal, and buying and selling your home in 2011.
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January 10, 2011
January Perspective: Home
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As we start this new year, we're looking ahead with hope and optimism. There will be challenges for sure – what they'll be we can't even imagine. But we are sustained by the idea that whatever's going on, we can go home. And the emotional value of that is priceless.
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AN OXFORD psychotherapist has been suspended from the profession after allegations he had a sexual relationship with a patient.
Rob Waygood was accused of persuading a female client not to get married in order to pursue a relationship with her.
A UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) panel last October ruled Mr Waygood should receive just a warning but a review has seen him suspended from practising for six months.
An initial complaint came to the UKCP alleging that Mr Waygood had breached his responsibility by talking about his own sexuality and sexual history to a client.
He was also accused of hugging and kissing his client on the hair and neck in March 2011, visiting the client's house in April 2011, and beginning a sexual affair in April or May 2011.
The UKCP's panel decision published last month reads: "The panel was satisfied the registrant had made early admissions in respect of these allegations and had not sought to deny the allegations, nor indeed to put the aggrieved party to the task of giving evidence."
But it added: "The panel determined that the registrant's behaviour was so serious that the reputation of both the profession and that of the regulators was at enormous risk and that in the circumstances it would only be on the rarest of occasions that suspension was not the appropriate sanction."